Bad News

05.12.2022

On my fridge is a picture of a dog.
It was a dog I helped for free a long time ago.
I got some sad news today that she is getting ready to depart
To go on her journey
I wrote this a few months ago when I first heard she was sick:

Bad news
Is when you never had the time to tell them you loved them
It’s when you never got a chance to say goodbye
Bad news is when it comes too early
It strikes the young so soon
Bad news is when even tho they are old
Their life was a waste
They never reached their true potential
They were never ever understood
Bad news makes me angry
It makes me hate GOd
But to have saved a senior that was mean and nasty and wanted to bite
To have saved her and turned her into an angel
To have given her so many memories and adventures
Even up til so late in her life
To know she is old and now going to die
And there is nothing I can do to stop it

It’s sad new my friend
And I cry with each word I now type
It’s sad news, that is for sure
It’s the saddest thing I have heard since I lost my own dog a month ago
But bad, no, I have to say
It is not bad news.